INFO@DARRENKNIGHTGALLERY.COM
1974
Born San Remo, Victoria
Lives Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
1994-96 Bachelor of Fine Art Major, Drawing, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009
Ricky Swallow: The Bricoleur, The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
watercolours, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Ricky Swallow Watercolours, The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
2008
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, USA
Recent work, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Ballad of a Thin Man (with Lesley Vance: That Vastness and This Tininess) at The Suburban, Illinois, USA
2007
Younger than Yesterday, Kunsthalle Wien project space, Vienna, Austria
Ricky Swallow The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin Ireland
2006
Long time gone Stuart Shave / Modern Art, London
Ricky Swallow, PS 1, New York City, USA
The past sure is tense Art Gallery of Western Australia
2005
This time another year, Australia Pavillion, Venice Biennale 2005
2004
Killing Time, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia; Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia
2003
Field Recordings, Project Room, Tokyo, Japan
2002
Wooden problem, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Tomorrow in Common, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, USA.
Sculpture Now, 1st Floor, Melbourne, Australia
2001
Swallow/Swenson, (with Erick Swenson), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
MATRIX 191: For those who came in late, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, USA
Above Ground Sculpture, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
2000
Above Ground Sculpture, Visiting Artists Project, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
Unplugged, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Plastruct, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Individual Ape, Hot Road Tea Room, Oslo, Norway
1999
The Multistylus Programme, Studio 12, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australia
1998
Repo Man, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1997
The Lighter Side of the Dark Side, Grey Area Art Space Inc., Melbourne, Australia
Small World, Teststrip, Auckland, New Zealand
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
Soft Sculpture, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Real Art Roadshow, The Viaduct Basin, Auckland & Touring New Zealand
2008
Lost & Found: An Archaeology of the Present, TarraWarra Biennial, Victoria, Australia
The Ecologies Project, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia
Tell Tchaikovsky the News, Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway
2007-2008
GOTH: Reality of Departed World,, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan
Existence – life according to art Waikato Museum, Hamilton, New Zealand
2007
Effigies, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
Modelers and Makers; Works in Ceramic, Gladstone Gallery, New York City
Sculpture Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
De Overkant/Down Under – Den Haag Sculptuur 07, The Hague, Netherlands
Snap Freeze: Still Life Now, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Victoria, Australia
Sculptors Drawing Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, USA
Across the board, Wallspace Gallery, Sydney Australia
2006
Memento Mori, Mireille Mosler Ltd, New York, USA
Red eye – LA artists from the Rubell Family Collection Rubell Family Collection, Los Angeles, USA
Multiplicity: Prints and Multiples Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and tour to regional Australian galleries
Nigel Cooke, Barnaby Furnas, Barry McGee, Matt Greene, Steven Shearer, Ricky Swallow. Stuart Shave / Modern Art, London, England
swell – the art in contemporary beach culture Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Australia
Long Live Sculpture!, Middelheim Museum, Antwerpen, Belgium
Reboot – the Jim and Mary Barr Collection Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand
2005
Kiss of the Beast, Queensland Art Gallery, Australia, 16 November 2005 – 22 January 2006
Lapped, Campbelltown Art Centre, Campbelltown, Sydney, Australia
Living together is easy Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan, and National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
Getting Emotional, The Institute of Contemporary Art, ICA, Boston, USA
Before Night – After Nature, Monash University Collection, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2004
Strange Weather, Modern Art, London, UK
Sticks & Stones, Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania, Australia
Living Together is Easy, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Japan, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
The Ten Commandments, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
Frieze Art Fair, London, UK
2003-2004
Home Sweet Home: Works from the Peter Fay Collection, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. (touring exhibition)
A Modelled World, McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park, Victoria, Australia
Fair Game. Art + Sport, NGV Response Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2003
Arcadia – the other life of video games Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand, and The Gus Fisher Gallery, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Still Life: The Inaugural Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Project, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Variations on the Theme of Illusion, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, UK.
See here now: Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990’s, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
The future in every direction: Joan Clemenger Endowment for Contemporary Australian Art, Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Art + Film, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
Some Things We Like, Asprey Jacques, London, UK.
Extended Play- Art Remixing Music, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Roll Out, with Rachel Feinstein, Steven Gontarski, Erick Swenson and Francis Upritchard, curated by Ricky Swallow, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
Guided by Heroes, curated by Raf Simons, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium
The fourth sex - the extreme territory of adolescence, curated by Raf Simons, Pitti Uomo, Stazioni Leopalda, Florence, Italy
2002-2003
Gulliver’s Travels, touring exhibition, College of Fine Arts, Sydney;
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne; Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra; Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide and Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, Australia
2002
1st Floor Final Exhibition, 1st Floor, Melbourne, Australia
People, Places + Ideas, Celebrating Four Decades of the Monash University Collection, Monash University Museum of Art, Victoria, Australia
Half The World Away, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, USA.
Big Bang Theory; Recent Chartwell Acquisitions, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Remix:contemporary art & pop, Tate Liverpool, England, UK
Possible Worlds, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand
2001-2002
None More Blacker, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, and touring exhibition; Geelong Gallery, Shepparton Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia;
Wollongong City Gallery, New South Wales, Australia; Global Arts Link, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
2001
Casino 2001, 1st Quadrennial of Contemporary Art, Gent, Belgium
Multistylus Programme. Recent Chartwell Acquisitions, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
So you want to be a rock star: Portraits and rock music in Australia, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia.
A person looks at a work of art…,The Michael Buxton Contemporary Art Collection, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia
Good work, the Jim Barr and Mary Barr Collection, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, City Gallery, Wellington, NZ
UTOPIA, Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland, Kiel Museum of Art, Kiel, Germany, Skulpturens Hus, Stockholm, Sweden
low-down, Recent Acquisitions, Monash University Collection, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Rubik, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2000
Keith Edmier, Ricky Swallow, Erick Swenson, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA
The Retrieved Object, Linden Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Are You Experienced? The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand
Uncommon World, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Spin Me Round, Metro Arts, Brisbane, Australia
Drawn From Life, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
Terra Mirabilis, Wonderland, Centre for Visual Arts, Cardiff, Wales
Brand New Master Copy, UKS Gallery, Oslo, Norway
Rent, Overgaden Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark and ACCA, Melbourne, Australia
1999
Contempora 5, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The Melbourne University, Melbourne, Australia
Spellbound, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Make it yourself, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australia
Signs of Life, Melbourne International Biennial 1999, Melbourne, Australia
Group drawing exhibition, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Walkmen, Ricky Swallow, David Jolly, David Noonan, Synaethesia Music, Melbourne, Australia
Multiples, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Fifty Bucks - a benefit show, Gallery 19, Sydney, Australia
No Jokes, Stripp Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1998
Misty V's City Lights 2000, City Lights, Hosier Lane, Melbourne, Australia
Rubik 3, Video versus Watercolour, 36 Wellington Street, Melbourne, Australia
Institutional Transit Lobby, 200 Gertrude Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Injection/Acquisition, Performance Space, Sydney, Australia
Video Soup, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Hobby Core, (curated by Ricky Swallow), Stripp Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Taken, (curated by Jon Cattapan), RMIT Project Space, Melbourne, Australia
Beaux Arts Art in The World '98, Passage de Retz, Paris, France
All This And Heaven Too, Adelaide Biennale Exhibition, Art Gallery of South Australia, Australia
Metamorphosis, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, Australia
Wild Kingdom, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
1997
Diorama, curated by Charlotte Day, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australia
Going Nowhere, curated by Julia Gorman, Grey Area Art Space Inc., Melbourne, Australia
Ear to the Ocean, (with Michael Graeve), Grey Area Art Space Inc., Melbourne, Australia
Gathering, Platform 2, Melbourne, Australia
1996
Before My Eyes A Bedroom Monster, Stop 22, Melbourne, Australia
PAGE ART
Art and Australia The arrangement, 2004 used as cover image for Vol. 42 Issue no.4, 2005
Westpac Private Bank Insight, winter 2003, p.3
Spiderland, Artist pages 1, 2, 3, 4 issue 3, Sydney 2002
Casino 2001 catalogue, Artist pages 190, 191, 2001
Hot Rod #6, published by Jan Walaker, Oslo, Norway 2000
Rubik 1,1998 (edition 100), Melbourne.
Rubik 2,1998 (edition 100), Melbourne.
GRANTS
1999
Contempora 5 1999, National Gallery of Victoria
1998
Injection Acquisition, Performance Space, Sydney.
Emerging Artists Grant, The Australia Council
1996
Channel 7 Award for Excellence in Drawing, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
RESIDENCIES
2000
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
Centre for Visual Arts, Cardiff, Wales
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, USA
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
City of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Monash University Museum of Art Collection, Melbourne, Australia
Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990’s Melbourne. On loan to
The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne.
Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
The Michael Buxton Contemporary Art Collection, Melbourne, Australia
Art Gallery of Western Australia
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Nelson, R. Telltale interactions, review, The Age, 30th July 2003
Nelson, R. And the living isn’t easy, The Age, 8 September 2004
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Pakula, K. Bronzed moderns, The Sydney Morning Herald Essentials 22 May 2008, p. 2
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Palmer, D. Shadowplay, Frieze, No.58, April 2001, pp. 84-87
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Pestorius, D. Spin Me Round, catalogue text, Metro Arts, Brisbane 2000
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Safe, G. Master of the Universe, The Weekend Australian, 21-22 December 2002
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Swallow, R. Ricky Swallow, exhibition catalogue, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, 2007
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Tonkin, S. Uncommon World, catalogue text, NGA, 2000
Travis, L. Hot Prospects, Vogue Australia, February 2001
Travis, L. None More Blacker, catalogue text, 200 Gertrude Street, 2001
Tredinnick, S. In Review: Ricky Swallow: Field Recordings Justin Paton, State of the Arts, July-Sept 2004
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VCA News, 10/21, VCA News, Issue 1, 2005
Walaker, Jan, Monkey Business, Interview and artists pages, Hot Rod Issue 6, Oslo, Norway
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Dunedin Public Art Gallery, dunedin, New Zealand, 2001
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preview of Rent, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Contemporary Visual Arts, 29, 2000